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Answer to Her Prayers
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The many unusual features of their home — such as fish tanks in the walls! — get loving care from Sale.
Gale's very industrious mother, supporting her brood of five with her sewing, had one foible: Nearly every Saturday night — late — she insisted on starting a needle-and-thread project. Sunday, after church, of course, she simply had to finish it. When Gale pointed out that Sunday was a day of rest, her mother said, "When the ox is in the ditch, you have to pull him out. That's straight from the Bible. Now you children go out and play." The fact was that Mrs. Cottle had to sew on Sundays to keep her family going.
Today, Gale still likes to do some of her own sewing. (She picked out the material for the curtains in her new home; in their former house, she made the curtains, drapes, and denim bedspreads in the boys' room). Sunday is Gale's only day free from TV and radio. When her husband, Lee Bonnell, says: "Today is supposed to be a day of rest," Gale replies, "When the ox is in the ditch. . . ." It's one of her favorite expressions.
Gale and Lee had the same religious background and training. This was very important to them when she and Lee decided to get married. Marriage is the most reverent act in all our lives, and, in taking the step, it's good to have many things in common — a spiritual bond is one of the most important. When Gale and Lee decided to marry, the first thing they wanted to do was join a church.
"My Little Margie," says Gale, "had nothing on me. I was just as zany as she is. When, at seventeen, I told my mother, 'I've just met the man I'm going to marry,' she said, 'Yes, dear,' in a maddeningly patronizing way. When I said, 'It's really him — I know it is!' she looked at me as if there were no hope.
"But a year later, when I told her, 'We're seriously looking for a church to join together,' she changed her mind. Mother thought this was the most sensible thing two young people could do, who had marriage in mind. 'There might,' she (Continued on page 84)
Gale Storm is My Little Margie— as seen on NBC-TV, Wed., 8:30 P.M. EDT, for Scott Paper Co.— heard on CBS Radio, Sun., 8:30 P.M. EDT, for Philip Morris Cigarettes and Campana Sales Co.
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Sale as short-order chef. "Bricks" in fireplace are really petrified wood.